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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/20/2008
Barack Obama, Liberal Hawk?
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Yglesias cries foul on my last post , with its prediction that Obama would end up earning a "strange new respect" among some right-wing hawks - and that he might even end up bomb, bomb, bombing Iran: A phased withdrawal from Iraq plus a stepped-up campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and ...
nytimes.com - 11/20/2008
Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon
— nytimes.com — Iran has produced enough nuclear material to make a single atom bomb, though it is unclear if... the country has achieved the necessary technical advances to create a bomb. > (more) Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon

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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/19/2008
Eyes on the Prize
— rossdouthat.theatlantic.com — Jim Geraghty : So Joe Lieberman is keeping his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee on the... say so of 42 Senate Democrats AND President Obama ; his Secretary of State might be Iraq War supporter and preconditionless-summit opponent Hillary ... (more) Eyes on the Prize

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americanforeignpolicy.org - 11/17/2008
American Foreign Policy Project
— americanforeignpolicy.org — Among the many challenges that will greet President-elect Obama when he takes office, there are few, if... any, more urgent and complex than the question of Iran. There are also few issues more clouded by myths and misconceptions. In this Joint Experts' ... (more) American Foreign Policy Project

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MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News — ... net negative verdicts after their performances on Capitol Hill yesterday. Flying down to D.C. in private jets was a public relations nightmare, and the CEOs behavior in front of Congress may doom a very necessary bailout, John Amato says at Crooks and Liars. GM CEO Rick Wagoner’s admission that the troubled automaker had not developed contingency plans was a bungled attempt to force Congress’s hand on a bailout, The Foundry’s Conn Carroll alleges. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Barack Obama, Liberal Hawk? – Ross Douthat [image] A Big ...

The obligatory “Iran has enough uranium for one nuclear bomb” post
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... of building nukes, so this is bound to come to a head sometime early(-ish) in The One’s term. Ross Douthat expects Obama to act , as do I, which is what I’ve always thought was the subtext of Biden’s notorious appeal to the left to ...

The Inappropriateness of Using a Left-Right Spectrum on Foreign Policy
democracyarsenal.org — ... and Ross Douthat regarding Obama’s foreign policy orientation. I just wanted to comment that, while I understand what Ross is saying, I still find ...

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